Dr. Alexander Ezenagu is currently an Assistant Professor in the College of Law at HBKU. An international tax expert. He specializes in international tax law, transfer pricing, tax planning, investment advisory and commercial law advisory and practice.
He obtained his Ph.D. in international tax law from McGill University, Canada. He is also a graduate of the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, where he obtained an LL.M. in commercial law. He holds an LL.B. degree from the University of Ibadan, Nigeria and has been admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of Nigeria.
Dr. Ezenagu’s research focuses on the relationship between taxation and economic development, as well as the role of government and non-government institutions and actors in the creation of tax policies and rules. He writes on the right to tax by countries and how such taxing rights should be allocated. He also researches and writes on illicit financial flows out of developing countries and ways to curb them.
Dr. Ezenagu supports countries in developing effective fiscal regimes and has worked with governments to introduce fiscal reforms. He is currently designing a course, Developmental Governance, which looks at the influences on the developmental models adopted by developing countries.
Dr. Ezenagu has published in academic journals and other globally recognized platforms. He has been quoted in the Financial Times, the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ Paradise Papers, Tax Notes International, International Tax Review, Quartz and other media outlets. He is also a consultant to the United Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the Coalition for Dialogue on Africa (CODA)- an African Union Commission body, TaxCoop Canada, among other international organizations.
Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong; Hong Kong
August 2019 - November 2019International Budget Partnership; Washington DC., United States
July 2019 - November 2019International Centre for Tax and Development; Brighton, United Kingdom
February 2017 - June 2019Templars Barristers & Solicitors; Lagos, Nigeria
2014 - 2015Banwo & Ighodalo; Lagos, Nigeria
2011 - 2013McGill University; Montreal, Canada
2019University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
2014Nigeria Law School; Abuja, Nigeria
2011University of Ibadan; Ibadan, Nigeria
2010Brighton, Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Available at: https://www.ictd.ac/publication/safe-harbour-regimes-in-transfer-pricing....
2019Tax Competition and Cooperation (2018), Wolters Kluwer, Series on International Taxation, vol. 62.
2018Tax Competition and Cooperation (2018), Wolters Kluwer, Series on International Taxation, vol. 62.
2018Asper Review of International Business and Trade Law, Vol. XVII, 131.
2017Brooklyn Journal of International Law, Vol. 41. Available at: http://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/bjil/vol41/iss3/4/.
2016Evaluation of Potentials, Paradoxes and Prospects” (2016). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2748040
2016Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), New Thinking on SDGs and International Law, Policy Brief No. 4, Waterloo: Canada. Available at: https://www.cigionline.org/sites/default/files/documents/SDG%20PB%20no.4....
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